To think facebook is dying out?

It only does this if you ask it to...

I'm on it daily, keep in touch with family overseas, friends, ex work colleagues, am in hobby groups, activist groups, social groups....

I've been on it since it first arrived in the uk and you had to have a university email account to access it. The only people we knew on there were our colleagues, so a number of them are still FB friends and it's great to see what they are doing now.

My dc migrated briefly to fb from MySpace, then they all went to instagram 🤷🏼‍♀️

I have a few friends I keep in Comcast via Facebook messenger

And I use it to follow a few groups I'm in but part from that.

I have friends on there but no one really posts anything any more

For the community groups it's very good. I run a quite successful one. I also use it like a personal photo album. I like looking at the memories that pop up.

The mindless video clips and completely annoying "suggested for you" posts are spoiling it. Some of the suggested posts are actually things I would actively avoid looking at so I'm forever deleting things from my feed.

Facebook needs to go back to basics and cut out the rubbish.

Facebook is totally useless for community events - because of the monetising algorithms you only see the post about the cubscouts doing a BBQ fundraiser in the park 3 days after it happened.

I still have one but don't post much. Social media is still alive and well but more generational now. The newer platforms are TikTok / Snap both of which I don't have accounts for. It will evolve and there will be newer forms of social media as time goes on.

I have heard youngsters say FB is for old people. Everything has its day eventually. Remember Friends Reunited?

I noticed this too. I scroll but rarely post now

I use facebooks for groups, events and keeping up to date with family, social photos and stuff like that. I tend to use instagram for hobby stuff. I probably prefer insta nowerdays as it’s more anonymous and easier to see only stuff you’re interested in without the endless bloody adverts! I don’t think either of them are going anywhere but the PP is correct, neither of my kids use Facebook at all so maybe it will fizzle out in time.

I deleted twitter, snapchat and TikTok and don’t miss them.

Just remove as much personal content as possible if you just want to keep this page going

I use it to stay in touch with distant family. My FB profile page does not contain my photo and I don't allow colleagues on my FB . People I dislike or people who have caused me problems I find them on FB and block them , this came after a colleague remarked that my FB was well locked down . I immediately removed my photo from my profile .

Local news sites are unbearable though with the number of pop ups and clickbait links. The hosting company is strangling them online.

I started a thread the other day - I’m on FB for groups now (most of my ‘friends’ on there never post and I haven’t for months) but even those groups are now jammed up by that annoying spam that pretends to be local news about lost dogs and missing kids.

I rarely use it now and it's just full of ads now. I have to scroll and scroll to find friends' posts and then when I do find them, it's mostly reposts of memes or news and local events not anything about them.

I would actually like to close my account but I think if I do it then closes my church's facebook page as I set that up (there are other admins). Anyone know?

@Holstomorrow that's really not my experience. My feeds are as active as ever but people are just using it in different ways.

I think people are using groups and pages much more and connecting with people outside of their immediate area. People don't post as many statuses but they do share photos or big life events.

Everyone on my Facebook still posts as much as ever, it's just the content that's changed.

I only use it for the local groups to see what events are on, I also quite like reading the comments when people rant about the local MP or so so did this what a CF kind of posts.
I don't post statuses anymore, haven't for years.

I'm 34, most of my friends are on insta so I've joined that but I don't really like/ get it. I still like FB but I think it is massively dying out. My younger cousins 20s don't have it at all.

I never posted a huge amount though and still don't. I'd average maybe 4 posts with pics/ what I'm up to a year. But I like the interaction it creates with friends from school/ living abroad and I like to see how their lives are going.

It's easier to join community groups, specifically mum/ baby ones, compared to insta. And I don't get twitter/ X even though I have an account

I think many people here outgrew Facebook, or the novelty wore off, or they don't like what it's become, or they found other platforms which are better for communication.

Whether it dies out depends on the take-up of the next generation. Are your kids active users, or have they found something else to waste their lives on?

People have been saying that Facebook is on its way out for at least a decade if not more.

Personally I don't see why some people have to make a big deal out of not using it anymore - it's like some weird competition about not following the crowd 😂

The question is, once a critical mass of people log off , will local news outlets be able to recover after their catastrophic financial collapse due to readers and advertisers moving to Facebook a decade ago?

Or is local journalism lost for ever ☹️. Even Meta has admitted their culpability in bringing this about. Local papers lose out to Facebook as UK towns become ‘news deserts’

Off to give some clicks to my local newspaper website while they still exist!

I think the way it used to be used is no longer popular but the group functionality is where most people engage. Either special interest or local groups. I see a lot of engagement there

I do agree people are on there, but they’re not using it very much nowadays. For a lot of people it’s become sort of equivalent to being in the phone book in the olden days.

I've never had an account. I've never really been sure what the point of it is/was, tbh - I don't use Twitter or Instagram either.

People have been saying that for at least a decade yet Facebook hasn't gone anywhere 😂

I personally know very, very few people who aren't on Facebook and they range from my 14 year old niece to my 70+ relatives.

Its been on the way out for years. When your granny / parents / aunts and uncles are on there the young ones move on.

I use it daily. Seems the same or possibly used more to me.

I've come off insta and Tik Tok though. I think insta is definitely on the decline.